volume
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Alternative forms
- vol. (abbreviation)
Etymology
From Middle English volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).
Pronunciation
Noun
volume (countable and uncountable, plural volumes)
- A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.
- The room is 9×12×8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.
- The proper products can improve your hair's volume.
- 1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63:
- Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml.
- Strength of sound; loudness.
- The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
- I looked at this week's copy of the magazine. It was volume 23, issue 45.
- A bound book.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
- A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
- The letter "G" was found in volume 4.
- (in the plural, by extension) A great amount (of meaning) about something.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- Ayesha wheeled round, and, pointing to the girl Ustane, said one word, and one only, but it was quite enough, for the tone in which it was said meant volumes.
- (obsolete) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
- Quantity.
- The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.
- A rounded mass or convolution.
- (economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
- (computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
- (bodybuilding) The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.
- (key muscle growth stimuli) Coordinate terms: mechanical tension, frequency
- (graph theory) The sum of the degrees of a set of vertices.
Derived terms
- alcohol by volume
- atomic volume
- biovolume
- blood volume
- covolume
- diavolume
- eigenvolume
- envolume
- equivolume
- euvolemia
- Hubble volume
- hypervolume
- intervolume
- isovolume
- Local Volume
- lung volume
- magnetovolume
- microvolume
- molar volume
- molecular volume
- multivolume
- nonvolume
- normovolemia
- Planck volume
- pressure volume diagram
- residual volume
- shadow volume
- specific volume
- stroke volume
- subvolume
- tidal volume
- turn up the volume on
- van der Waals volume
- volaemia
- volume clutter
- volume CT
- volume integral
- volumeless
- volumer
- volume resistivity
- volumescope
- volume shooter
- volumeter
- volumetric
- volumetrics
- volumetry
- volumette
- volumic
- voluminous
- volumise
- volumist
- volumize
- volumometer
- worldvolume
Translations
three-dimensional measure of space
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strength of sound
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issues of a periodical over a period of one year
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bound book
single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia
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roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books
synonym for quantity — see also quantity
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rounded mass or convolution
computing: accessible storage area with a single file system
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
See also
- cubic distance
- Customary: ounce, pint, quart, gallons, cubic inch (in3), cubic foot, cubic yard, cubic mile
- Metric: mililiter, liter, cubic meter (m3), cubic centimeter ("cc") (cm3)
- sound
- Universal: bel, decibel
- Metric: millipascal (mPa)
Verb
volume (third-person singular simple present volumes, present participle voluming, simple past and past participle volumed)
- (intransitive) To be conveyed through the air, waft.
- 1867, George Meredith, chapter 30, in Vittoria, volume 2, London: Chapman & Hall, page 258:
- […] thumping guns and pattering musket-shots, the long big boom of surgent hosts, and the muffled voluming and crash of storm-bells, proclaimed that the insurrection was hot.
- 1885, William Dean Howells, chapter 2, in The Rise of Silas Lapham:
- […] the Colonel, before he sat down, went about shutting the registers, through which a welding heat came voluming up from the furnace.
- (transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft.
- 1872, George Macdonald, chapter 15, in Wilfrid Cumbermede, volume I, London: Hurst & Blackett, page 243:
- We lay leaning over the bows, now looking up at the mist blown in never-ending volumed sheets, now at the sail swelling in the wind before which it fled, and again down at the water through which our boat was ploughing its evanescent furrow.
- 1900, Walter William Skeat, chapter 6, in Malay Magic, London: Macmillan, page 420:
- The censer, voluming upwards its ash-gray smoke, was now passed from hand to hand three times round the patient, and finally deposited on the floor at his feet.
- 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 33, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 219:
- The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?”
- (intransitive) To swell.
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Noun
volume m (plural volumes)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen.
Pronunciation
Noun
volume n (plural volumen or volumes, diminutive volumetje n)
- volume (three-dimensional quantity of space)
- volume (sound level)
- (obsolete) volume, book (single book as an instalment in a series)
Derived terms
- hersenvolume
- volume-eenheid
- volumeknop
- volumemaat
- volumineus
Descendants
- → Indonesian: volumê
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
volume m (plural volumes)
- volume (of a book, a written work)
- volume (sound)
- volume (amount of space something takes up)
- volume (amount; quantity)
- (figuratively) an overly long piece of writing
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “volume”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Etymology
Noun
volume m (plural volumes)
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